Plano, TX.

The presses at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's printing facility just of Interstate 20 in Edgecliff Village ran for the final time Saturday night. Beginning Sunday night, the Star-Telegram started printing at the Dallas Morning News' press facility in Plano, TX.

It's purely an economic move by the Star-Telegram, which is owned by McClatchy. The Star-Telegram said the massive property south of downtown Fort Worth will be put up for sale.

The Star-Telegram announced the move in November, saying that it would lay off 75 full-time and 200 part-time printing and distribution workers.

IF THIS magazine chose to hand out an award for the biggest newsmaker of the year, the 2008 honor would go to Quebecor World (QW), hands down. One might contend that the attention, while merited, is not the type of exposure a company would want: Financing issues, trying to sell an unprofitable venture and muddling through with bankruptcy in two countries. But Quebecor World is a printer for our economic times, the No. 2 in North America at a time when market leaders (Circuit City, AIG, Lehman Bros.) have come crashing down.

MADISON, WI—For the second time in a little more than a year, the social security numbers of Wisconsin residents have been exposed in a government mailing. The state Department of Health and Family Services sent 260,000 brochures to Medicaid, SeniorCare and BadgerCare recipients, with mailing labels including their social security numbers. According to the Associated Press, the vendor that performed the job, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) of Plano, TX, has set up a hotline and is offering the recipients a year’s worth of credit monitoring. “People are getting unnecessarily alarmed here,” Bill Ritz, a spokesman for Electronic Data Systems, told the AP. “There

PLANO, TX—August, 2007—Procam Controls, Inc., the leading provider of filtration systems for the graphic arts industry, will present Fount-N-Kleer XL at the 2007 Graph and Converting Expo Show. The Fount-N-Kleer XL, a deluxe model of Procam Controls, Inc. Fount-N-Kleer series of product, utilizes a patented side-stream technology providing a higher level of filtration for individual recirculation units. The Fount-N-Kleer XL provides a level of filtration and filter life unattainable by filters that utilize circulator pumps due to its unique high pressure, high flow pump that re-circulates the fountain solution through two stages of filtration, independent of the circulator pump. This leads to increased productivity, reduced

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